The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1887-02-25
NEWS NOTES.

The commette on pensions will probably
report favorably on passing the dependent PEN
sion bill over the Presidents veto.
The acting secretary of the treausry has is-
sued call for $40, ,O0O 900 three per cent bonds.
The call will mature April first.
President Cleveland has conveyed tho impress
sion that he will appoint the Interstate rail-
road commission early next week.
The President has vetoed the bill furnishing
seed grain free to drouth stricken portions Of
Texas. He does not believe in pnternalism.
Miss Duke, daughter Of Gen. Basil Duke, the
Confederate cavalryman, is delighting Wash
ington society by her exquisite violin playing.
Australian advices state that sixty lives were
lost by the recent floods at Brisbane, Queens
land. The damage to property was enormous,
but cannot yet be estimated.
A dispatch from Toronto says returns of the
dominion election received up to the night of
the 2Sd, show the election Of ITO conserva-
tives, S6 liberals and 4 independents.
A severe earthquake occurred in Italy on
"Wednesday morning, devastating the whole Of
the Italian rivera. A number Of houses fell
and many lives were lost. second shock oc-
CURED the same day. Immense damage was
done to property.
A duel was fought in New Orleans recently
between Robert Roman, sou Of Judge Alfred
Roman, and Sidney L. Theard, son Of Hon.
Paul e. S. Theard. The weapons were small
swords. Theard received slight flesh wound
in the hand and the fight was stopped.
Boston Cerbett, ]. Wilkes Booths slayer, who
has just been adjudged insane at Topeka, was
doorkeeper of the Kansas house. Armed with
revolver and bowie, he threatened tl,s life OF
Speaker Smith and others, whom he believed
had conspred to take his life.
Injury to tho winter wheat by reason of the
recent sleet storms and accompanying cold
weather is reported from various portions of
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas, but the
general situation as affecting the prospects Of
winter wheat continues to be favorable, nc
cording to the Farmers Review summary.
Conrad Gotzian, the we'll known wholesale
boot and shoe dealer, died Monday at St. Paul
III his fifty y-second year, OF brain fever. He had
just returned from trip to California. He
came to St. Paul in '54 and has been prolni
neutly identified with the citys interests. He
leaves a wife and six children. His estate is
probably worth five or six millions.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul has equipped two
passenger trains between Chicago and Mil
waukee with apparatus for heating by steam
from the locomotives. The experiment is sue
cessful SO far, but has not yet had the test of
severe weather. The company is also building
an iron heating Cur to carry a boiler for gener-
atng steam for heating the train and to run
next the engine.
The London Times advises that no time be
lost in efecting a settlement OF tho fisheries
dispute between the United States and Canada
before the fishing season opens, because at its
commencement the dispute may be complicated
by fresh seizures of fishing vessels. '"The
Canadians" says tho Times, "as we'll as their
neighbors, must be prepared to waive some of
the rights for which they have been sticking"